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Melting Arctic may redraw global geopolitical mapU.S. Navy safety swimmers stand on the deck of the Virginia class submarine USS New Hampshire after it surfaced through thin ice. If, as many scientists predict, currently inaccessible sea lanes across the top of the world become navigable in the coming decades, they could redraw global trading routes — and perhaps geopolitics — forever.

NYT: Small banks shift charters to avoid U.S. as regulatorA small community bank in New Hampshire found a demand from its regulator last month just too much. Monadnock Community Bank in Peterborough was ordered to do a thorough review of how it collected payments on its delinquent loans, said William Pierce, the chief executive. That meant diverting three of its 18 employees to comb through reams of mortgages.

Cell phone location tracking public records requests Of all of the recent technological developments that have expanded the surveillance capabilities of law enforcement agencies at the expense of individual privacy, perhaps the most powerful is cell phone location tracking. And now, after an unprecedented records request by ACLU affiliates around the country, we know that this method is widespread and often used without adequate regard for constitutional protections, judicial oversight, or accountability.

1993 Ducati Supermono changed my life“I got the Supermono in '95, at age 48. After years on vintage machinery, the Ducati made me a real racer again. My fellow competitors complained about the 577cc single's power, but it only makes 68 bhp! What makes it fast is the handling'